Messiah Lutheran Church 1939

Messiah Lutheran Church 1939 is a church at 1434 Lakewood Street in Detroit, MI 48215. It is one of 1,584 churches in Detroit.

1434 Lakewood Street, Detroit, MI, 48215

Messiah Lutheran Church 1939 is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 917 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Michigan — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.

Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.

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The community around Messiah Lutheran Church 1939

Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.

  • Obesity: 46.1%
  • Poverty Rate: 42.8% (32.0–53.6%)
  • Food Insecurity: 42.1%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.0%
  • Housing Insecurity: 31.4%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 28.3%
  • Transportation Barriers: 22.3%
  • Diabetes: 21.0%
  • Social Isolation: 34.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
  • Unemployment: 9.7% (4.8–14.5%)
  • Depression: 24.1%

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Detroit city is served by 1,247 churches — about one congregation for every 510 residents.

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